An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricThomas Carey, 1818 - 300 páginas |
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... ocean , not from its extent alone , but from the continual motion and irresistible force of that mass of waters . Wherever space is concerned , it is evident that amplitude , or greatness of extent , in 20 Sublimity in Objects .
... ocean , not from its extent alone , but from the continual motion and irresistible force of that mass of waters . Wherever space is concerned , it is evident that amplitude , or greatness of extent , in 20 Sublimity in Objects .
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... force . Hence the grandeur of earthquakes and burning mountains ; of great conflagrations ; of the boisterous ocean ; of the tempestuous storm ; of thunder and light- ning ; and of all the unusual violence of the elements . A stream ...
... force . Hence the grandeur of earthquakes and burning mountains ; of great conflagrations ; of the boisterous ocean ; of the tempestuous storm ; of thunder and light- ning ; and of all the unusual violence of the elements . A stream ...
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... force or power , whether at- tended by terror or not , whether employed in protecting or alarming us , has a better title , than any thing yet mentioned , to be the fundamental quality of the sublime . There appears to be no sublime ...
... force or power , whether at- tended by terror or not , whether employed in protecting or alarming us , has a better title , than any thing yet mentioned , to be the fundamental quality of the sublime . There appears to be no sublime ...
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... force . The sound of modern lan- guage is also less agreeable to the ear , being deprived of that variety and sweetness , which arose from the length of words , and the change of terminations , occasioned by cases in the Greek and Latin ...
... force . The sound of modern lan- guage is also less agreeable to the ear , being deprived of that variety and sweetness , which arose from the length of words , and the change of terminations , occasioned by cases in the Greek and Latin ...
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... force . the production of this effect , perspicuity and unity are absolutely necessary ; but more is re- quisite . For a sentence may be clear ; it may also be compact , or have the requisite unity ; and yet , by some unfavourable ...
... force . the production of this effect , perspicuity and unity are absolutely necessary ; but more is re- quisite . For a sentence may be clear ; it may also be compact , or have the requisite unity ; and yet , by some unfavourable ...
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action admit affectation agreeable ancient appear arguments atheism attention beauty blank verse characters Cicero circumstances comedy composition concise connected degree Demosthenes dignity discourse distinction distinguished elegant eloquence emotion employed Eneid English epic poem epic poetry excel excite exhibit expression fancy figure frequently genius give grace Greek guage hearers heart Hence Henriade Homer human ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance Jane Shore jects kind language Livy Lucan Lusiad lyric poetry manner ment metaphor Milton mind modern moral motion narration nature never object observed orator ornament painting Paradise Lost passion pastoral pathetic pause peculiar perspicuity Pharsalia pleasing pleasures poet poetical poetry proper propriety public speaking render requisite resemblance ridicule rule scene sense sensibility sentence sentiments simplicity sion Sophocles sound speaker species speech spirit strength strong style sublime syllable Tacitus taste thing thought Thucydides tion tragedy unity variety verse Virgil voice words writing
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Página 232 - Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Página 106 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Página 228 - Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Página 27 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Página 31 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 134 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Página 230 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Página 233 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Página 116 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Página 229 - But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new world? whom shall we find Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way?